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Core knowledge and its role in explaining uniquely human cognition: Some questions by Schulz, Armin W

“…Questions can be raised about the central status that evolutionarily ancient core knowledge systems are given in Spelke's otherwise very compelling theory. So,…”
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Enhancing thoughts: Culture, technology, and the evolution of human cognitive uniqueness by Schulz, Armin W.

“…Three facts are widely thought to be key to the characterization of human cognitive uniqueness (though a number of other factors are often cited as well): (a)…”
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Institutional Corruption: The Teleological and Nonnormative Account by Schulz, Armin W

“…While corruption has long been recognized as a major social problem, only relatively recently has the importance of a specific institutional form of corruption…”
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Tools of the trade: the bio-cultural evolution of the human propensity to trade by W Schulz, Armin

“…Humans are standouts in their propensity to trade. More specially, the kind of trading found in humans—featuring the exchange of many different goods and…”
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Equilibrium modeling in economics: a design-based defense by Schulz, Armin W.

“…Several authors have recently argued that the excessive focus on equilibrium models in mainstream economic analysis prevents economists from providing accurate…”
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Explaining Human Diversity: the Need to Balance Fit and Complexity by Schulz Armin, W

“…While the existence of human cognitive and behavioral diversity is now widely recognized, it is not yet well established how to explain this diversity. In…”
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The evolutionary foundations of resource-rational analysis by Schulz, Armin W

“…Resource-rational analysis would profit from being integrated more explicitly with an evolutionary psychological perspective. In particular, by taking more…”
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Episodic Memory, Simulated Future Planning, and their Evolution by W. Schulz, Armin, Robins, Sarah

“…The pressures that led to the evolution of episodic memory have recently seen much discussion, but a fully satisfactory account of them is still lacking. We…”
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What’s the Point? A Presentist Social Functionalist Account of Institutional Purpose by Schulz, Armin W.

“…Although it is clear that many of the major contemporary social problems center on the extent to which social institutions do or do not function as they are…”
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It Just Looks the Same: An Evolutionary Psychological Account of Differences in Racial Cognition Among Infants and Older Humans by Osmanoglu, Kamuran, W. Schulz, Armin

“…Forms of racial cognition begin early: from about 3 months onwards, many human infants prefer to look at own-race faces over other-race faces. What is not yet…”
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By genes alone: a model selectionist argument for genetical explanations of cooperation in non-human organisms by Schulz, Armin W.

“…I distinguish two versions of kin selection theory—a purely genetic version (GKST) and a version that also appeals to cultural (i.e. non-genetically-derived)…”
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Survival after secondary liver resection in metastatic colorectal cancer: Comparing data of three prospective randomized European trials (LICC, CELIM, FIRE‐3) by Moehler, Markus, Folprecht, Gunnar, Heinemann, Volker, Holch, Julian Walter, Maderer, Annett, Kasper, Stefan, Hegewisch‐Becker, Susanna, Schröder, Jan, Overkamp, Friedrich, Kullmann, Frank, Bechstein, Wolf Otto, Vöhringer, Matthias, Öllinger, Robert, Lordick, Florian, Geißler, Michael, Schulz‐Abelius, Armin, Linz, Bernhard, Bernhard, Helga, Paul, Andreas, Schmidtmann, Irene, Potthoff, Karin, Schimanski, Carl Christoph

“…Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with liver‐limited disease (LLD) have a chance of long‐term survival and potential cure after hepatic…”
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Observation of ultrafast interfacial Meitner-Auger energy transfer in a Van der Waals heterostructure by Dong, Shuo, Beaulieu, Samuel, Selig, Malte, Rosenzweig, Philipp, Christiansen, Dominik, Pincelli, Tommaso, Dendzik, Maciej, Ziegler, Jonas D., Maklar, Julian, Xian, R. Patrick, Neef, Alexander, Mohammed, Avaise, Schulz, Armin, Stadler, Mona, Jetter, Michael, Michler, Peter, Taniguchi, Takashi, Watanabe, Kenji, Takagi, Hidenori, Starke, Ulrich, Chernikov, Alexey, Wolf, Martin, Nakamura, Hiro, Knorr, Andreas, Rettig, Laurenz, Ernstorfer, Ralph

“…Atomically thin layered van der Waals heterostructures feature exotic and emergent optoelectronic properties. With growing interest in these novel quantum…”
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Altruism, egoism, or neither: A cognitive-efficiency-based evolutionary biological perspective on helping behavior by Schulz, Armin W.

“…I argue for differences in the cognitive efficiency of different psychologies underlying helping behavior, and present an account of the adaptive pressures…”
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Niche construction, adaptive preferences, and the differences between fitness and utility by Schulz, Armin W

“…A number of scholars have recently defended the claim that there is a close connection between the evolutionary biological notion of fitness and the economic…”
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Perspective on Quantitative Structure–Toxicity Relationship (QSTR) Models to Predict Hepatic Biotransformation of Xenobiotics by Rai, Mansi, Paudel, Namuna, Sakhrie, Mesevilhou, Gemmati, Donato, Khan, Inshad Ali, Tisato, Veronica, Kanase, Anurag, Schulz, Armin, Singh, Ajay Vikram

“…Biotransformation refers to the metabolic conversion of endogenous and xenobiotic chemicals into more hydrophilic substances. Xenobiotic biotransformation is…”
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The Ways of Altruism by Piccinini, Gualtiero, Schulz, Armin W.

“…We argue that some organisms are altruistically motivated and such altruistic motivation is adaptive. We lay out the helper’s decision problem—determining…”
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Idealizations and Partitions: A Defense of Robustness Analysis by Fuller, Gareth P., Schulz, Armin W.

“…We argue that the robustness analysis of idealized models can have confirmational power. This responds to concerns recently raised in the literature…”
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Firms, agency, and evolution by Schulz, Armin W.

“…A recent (though controversial) trend in economics has been to appeal to evolutionary theory when addressing various open questions in the subject. I here…”
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The benefits of rule following: A new account of the evolution of desires by Schulz, Armin W.

“…•I present a new account of when and why organisms should represent their goals.•I show why Kim Sterelny’s account of these issues fails to be fully…”
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